The hype level around the Tennessee football team just continues to rise.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated Top 25 showdown with Florida in Knoxville on Sept. 24, Tennessee announced on Friday afternoon that the Akron game on Sept. 17 will be a sellout in Neyland Stadium.
Tennessee will now have back-to-back sellouts for the next two weekends in Knoxville as the Vols host both Akron and Florida.
The excitement around the Tennessee football team is massive. The fact that Tennessee was able to sell out Saturday night’s game, against an Akron team that Tennessee is favored by more than 45 points against, shows just how badly people want to see this team with their own eyes. It will also be the first sellout since Ole Miss in 2021. The Rebels and the Gators being sold out makes sense, but the Akron game is certainly an outlier that proves how desperately people want to see Tennessee in person.
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Prior to the 2021 Ole Miss game, it had been four years since Tennessee’s last sellout. Now, by the end of September, Tennessee will have had three sellouts in the last seven home games dating back to last season.
While many familiar with Tennessee may be imagining a sellout being the traditional 102,455 number, things have changed this season. Due to the renovation and the installation of the upper north social deck, Tennessee had to remove 540 seats from Neyland Stadium’s capacity.
The new Neyland Stadium sellout number will be 101,915. Shoutout to Nashville on that one. Could have removed an extra 50 to make it 101,865… but I digress.
Regardless, one way or another, there will be over 101,000 screaming fans inside Neyland Stadium over the course of the next two weekends in Knoxville.
No. 15 Tennessee will host Akron at 7:00 p.m. ET this Saturday night, with the Vols hosting Florida at 3:30 p.m. ET next Saturday afternoon. Both games are officially sold out inside Neyland Stadium.
We’ve got another sellout #VolNation! Can’t wait to see y’all in Neyland tomorrow night! #GBO🍊 pic.twitter.com/MZ7ngBcH4k
— Danny White (@AD_DannyWhite) September 16, 2022
Here was the attendance for Tennessee’s home games in 2021:
Bowling Green – Sept. 2, 2021
- 84,314
Pittsburgh – Sept. 11, 2021
- 82,203
Tennessee Tech – Sept. 18, 2021
- 80,053
South Carolina – Oct. 9, 2021
- 89,437
Ole Miss – Oct. 16, 2021
- 102,455 (sellout)
Georgia – Nov. 13, 2021
- 100,074
South Alabama – Nov. 20, 2021
- 75,203
Vanderbilt – Nov. 27, 2021
- 77,349
Additionally, Tennessee announced an attendance of 92,236 for their 2022 season-opener against Ball State on Thursday, Sept. 1.
